With three teammates, he completed two stretches of the Vaal, swimming a total of 14.5km over two days. The swim was the culmination of a year’s planning, backed by plenty of experience.

This equates to more than two billion Olympic-sized swimming pools passing through the sluice gates in two weeks. The Vaal Dam is currently at 28.1% capacity, Sterkfontein Dam at 94.4%, Grootdraai ...

“it’s absolutely beautiful,” gushed Lodine Kruger as she watched the 994 cumecs - which can fill an Olympic-sized swimming pool in 2.5 seconds - of water rush through seven sluice gates of ...

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Johannesburg - Four open water swimmers swam two stretches of the highly-polluted Vaal River near Standerton in Mpumalanga to raise awareness of its contamination and to help seek solutions.

The large dam located on the Vaal River, ... Current level 1 restrictions, introduced on 1 September 2024, prohibit using a hosepipe to water your garden, fill your swimming pools, ...

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More than 1.5million medium-sized swimming pools of water are stolen through illegal water use in the northern parts of South Africa each year. Mike Mokgwabone, deputy director of water resource ...

With three teammates, he completed two stretches of the Vaal, swimming a total of 14.5km over two days. The swim was the culmination of a year's planning, backed by plenty of experience.